24/12/2012 South East Today


24/12/2012

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Good evening. A Kent hospital accused of

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discriminating against blue badge holders with its parking charges

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has agreed to look again at prices. Medway Maritime Hospital was being

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sued by a patient who said the costs go against equality laws.

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Fiona Irving has more. An attack on Disability Rights,

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that his house to soar Medway Maritime Hospital's decision to

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charge disabled visitors to park. She was suing the hospital under

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the equality act and now they have reached an out-of-court this

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element -- settlement. Visitors will now be able to park for longer

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for the same price. I see it as a win for Disability Rights and a win

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for others as well, carers of disabled people and people with

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elderly relatives and mums with buggies that take time to get in

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and out so it makes it a lot easier. It is perhaps only a minor victory.

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Disabled visitors still have to pay to park here. Anyone parking for

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more than two hours have to pay the same. It is only visitors that wind

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-- Park for less than two hours that win out. There will be a

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discount scheme for frequent visitors. For many the changes do

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not go far enough. The frequent visitor at discount is all right

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but to charge disabled people is morally wrong. Morally wrong.

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sure this hospital makes enough money with all of the people that

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do have to pay to allow a few disabled people to get in for free.

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Disabled people should then have to pay at all. They have had it for

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years where they have and I had to pay anything. They are allowed to

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park on double yellow lines and that so why can they not part here?

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The trust say the party policy is not discriminatory but it strives

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to ensure its practices of the highest standard.

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Rail services between Brighton and London have returned to normal

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following a trackside fire last week. Passengers were trapped on

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dark trains by Preston Park station in Brighton for more than two hours

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following the fire caused by power faults.

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And a reminder that Southeastern and Southern are operating a

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reduced Christmas Eve service tonight.

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It means the last departures on services from London to the Sussex

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coast, Maidstone, Dartford and coast, Maidstone, Dartford and

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coast, Maidstone, Dartford and Whitstable will be around 8pm and

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Whitstable will be around 8pm and Whitstable will be around 8pm and

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in some cases closer to 7pm. Festive swimmers in Brighton are

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being warned not to take part in the annual event tomorrow as the

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council says the conditions will be too dangerous. As a result of the

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forecast, the beach will be closed at the site of the annual event.

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The seafront team will be in attendance but warn there'll be no

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lifeguards present. Last year a man was rescued in similar conditions

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and in 2007, 12 people were rescued, again in stormy conditions.

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Football and the South East's league teams face their most

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intensive couple of weeks of the season, with as many as four games

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in eleven days. And for most teams that starts on Boxing Day. But for

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the first time in many years Brighton fans will have to wait a

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little longer to get their festive football fix, with no match before

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meeting Watford at home, and Ipswich away. So many games in a

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short period of time. Sometimes it looks like it is more important

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than the rest. For me it is no different. The first game of the

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season all the last game of the season.

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In the Boxing Day fixtures, Charlton play Ipswich at the Valley

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while in League One Crawley travel to Portsmouth. And in League Two

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Gillingham host Barnet. Now, with Christmas almost upon us,

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I'm sure you've had a number of goodwill messages. But in our

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opinion there's always room for a few more.

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I am Alun Davies and I would like to wish everyone in the South East

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a very Happy Christmas and those of you outside the South East, I am

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not interested. A merry Christmas to all of you from Robbie Savage.

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Merry Christmas to the viewers of South East Today. Merry Christmas!

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A family who've made the Eastbourne pantomime an annual tradition have

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gone one step further this year by starring as newly weds on the stage.

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Victoria and Stephen Rogers were married at the town hall this

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morning and then, with full wedding party, went to the performance of

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Sleeping Beauty. And at the end of the show the new Mr and Mrs Rogers

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were guests of honour for the curtain call.

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Oh no they weren't! Oh yes they were!

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were! Let us get the weather now.

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Hello. It may have only been light rain today but the yellow warning

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is still in place until midnight. It is falling on saturated ground

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so there is a risk of localised flooding. If you have any concerns

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look at the Environment Agency website. Christmas Day will be a

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day of sunshine and heavy showers. Showers will start in the early

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hours of this morning, quite heavy along the coastline. They could be

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thundery. They will continue until around lunchtime. It will be clear

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for a little while and we may even have sunny spells to look forward

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to. It will be quite a breezy day tomorrow. Much the same as today.

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Quite mild temperatures. Not quite as mild as we have had recently so

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it may feel cooler. In the evening the showers will return. It is

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looking quite unsettled over the next few days. The breeze will stay

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with us until the end of the week. Temperatures are gradually taking a

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dip down as we ate it towards the end of the week. Hopefully your

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